Eliezer Geller, member of Gordonia and the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Warsaw (Warszawa) ghetto.
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Geller was born in Opoczno in 1919. He was among the initiators in setting up a fighting underground in Czestochowa and Zaglebie. Geller served in the Polish army in 1939 and, along with many of his comrades, fell prisoner to the Germans and was freed after four months. He then went to Warsaw, where he was called upon by Yisrael Zeltzer, the only one of the Gordonia leadership stil ...
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Eliezer Geller, member of Gordonia and the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Warsaw (Warszawa) ghetto.Note:Geller was born in Opoczno in 1919. He was among the initiators in setting up a fighting underground in Czestochowa and Zaglebie. Geller served in the Polish army in 1939 and, along with many of his comrades, fell prisoner to the Germans and was freed after four months. He then went to Warsaw, where he was called upon by Yisrael Zeltzer, the only one of the Gordonia leadership still alive, to take on extensive movement activities. Geller distributed the movement's publications in the underground, visited Gordonia branches throughout Poland, and made contact with the Gordonia office in Geneve (Geneva).Geller and Zeltzer did not work well together, and they turned for mediation to Dr. Natan Eck, to decide which of them would step down from Gordonia's leadership. Eck decided in favor of Geller, who was made a member of the movement's directorate.In the January 1943 fighting in the ghetto, Geller fought in the Dror combat group, and was made commander of a squad in the Toebbens - Schultz "shop" area. In the Warsaw ghetto uprising in April 1943, Geller commanded a combat squad at 76 Leszno Street. On May 10, 1943, he left the burning ghetto via the sewers to the "Aryan" side of Warsaw. He and other fighters took refuge at a celluloid factory at 10 Listopadowa 11 Street (November 11th, Poland's Independence Day). Geller was burned in the fire that broke out there on May 24, 1943 -- he was the only survivor -- and succeeded in escaping from the Polish police. In summer 1943, he tried to leave Poland with forged documents of a South American national, but was caught and sent to Auschwitz, where he perished. See also: - Zivia Lubetkin: In the Days of Destruction and Revolt. Israel: Ghetto Fighters' House, 1981- His page on The Partisans Website of the Ghetto Fighters' House (www.partisans.org.il) and Holdings Registry file No. 34283 in the GFH Archives. Close